Health Insurer May Examine Blog Entries On Eating Disorders Despite Privacy...
An insurance company seeking to determine the cause of health policy subscribers' eating disorders may examine blogs, Web pages, and other electronic communications that children posted online about...
View ArticleGAO Study on Currency Transaction Reports Recommends 'Fine Tuning' Compliance...
The Government Accountability Office Feb. 21 released a congressionally mandated report on currency transaction reports indicating that expanded use of existing exemptions could reduce the cost and...
View ArticleYouTube to De-Identify Data Intended For Viacom in Copyright Infringement Suit
Video-sharing Web site YouTube agreed July 14 to substitute non-identifying values for information intended for release to Viacom International Inc., such as how many times each video has been viewed...
View ArticlePrivacy under the European Convention on Human Rights
In a case that rested on the question of whether access to medical records was covered by Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees citizens' right to privacy, the...
View ArticleNew York Criminalizing Impersonation Over Internet
New York passed a law that will make it a Class A misdemeanor to impersonate another "by communication by Internet website or electronic means with intent to obtain a benefit or injure or defraud...
View ArticleAttorneys May Not Mislead Witnesses Into Granting Access to Social Web Pages
According to BNA's Privacy Law Watch, the Philadelphia Bar Association's Professional Guidance Committee has declined a lawyer's plan to collect information about an adverse witness by hiring someone...
View ArticleFederal Web Sites May Begin Tracking Users
An article in yesterday's Washington Post reported that the federal government has begun to reconsider its ban on the use of cookies by federal agency web sites. Instead of banning cookies, the...
View ArticleFacebook Agrees to Shut Down Beacon in Class Action Settlement
In a proposed settlement for a class action suit, Facebook has agreed to shut down its Beacon marketing system. The agreement is before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California:...
View ArticleNew Privacy Law Resource
Members of the Georgetown Law Center community now have access to the World Data Protection Report. This monthly report summarizes developments in privacy law worldwide. Topics included are identity...
View ArticleSymposium: Big Data and Big Challenges for Law and Legal Information, Wed. 1/30
In celebration of 125 years, the Georgetown Law Library looks to the future with a symposium of the academic, advocacy, government, and library communities on Wednesday, January 30 at Georgetown...
View ArticleBig Data at the Crossroads of Art History and Privacy
On January 30th the law library will host a conference entitled Big Data and Big Challenges for Law and Legal Information. By bringing together academics, governmental staff, policy advocates, and...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Big Data as Seen through the Gun Map
The balance of privacy and the public need for information will be a major theme of the library's January 30 symposium, Big Data and Big Challenges for Law and Legal InformationPrivacy and data is now...
View ArticleSymposium on 1/30: Prof. Paul Ohm on Privacy
The Georgetown Law Library's 125th anniversary symposium, Big Data and Big Challenges for Law and Legal Information, will explore a range of topics related to the applications of big data in legal...
View ArticleNow Online: Big Data Symposium Video and Materials
The library hosted its 125th anniversary symposium, Big Data and Big Challenges for Law and Legal Information, this past Wednesday. We were delighted to welcome dozens of participants from law schools,...
View ArticleNational Security "Big Data" Symposium Video Now Online
If you weren't able to make it over to Gewirz this week for the symposium, Swimming in the Ocean of Big Data: National Security in an Age of Unlimited Information, hosted by the Journal of National...
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